Ross Robertson of EnlightenNext has a nice piece on an interesting pioneer:
Jun Po Roshidharma heir of Rinzai Zen Master Eido Shimano Roshi, founder of a lay Buddhist order called Hollow Bones, and originator of a modern form of Rinzai known as Mondo Zencame to visit us at EnlightenNext yesterday. After a delicious lunch and a delightful afternoon together, I was even more impressed with him than I had been on the phone a few weeks ago when we interviewed him for a Beyond Limits feature in our next issue. Jun Po is a remarkable human being, and his presence transmits a unique combination of strength and sweetness, fearless confidence and undefended vulnerability. Immediately upon meeting him, he makes you feel like an old and trusted friend. And hes filled with stories of a long life richly lived, from his days as a San Francisco urban shaman at the center of the LSD revolution to his years in the monastery, his passion for wild mushrooms and the Argentine tango, and his recent march down to deaths gate in the clutches of stage IV throat cancer.